Being English: Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope

by Julian Wolfreys

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Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves, using texts by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Arnold, Gaskell, Collins, Eliot, and Trollope.
  • ISBN10 0791421015
  • ISBN13 9780791421017
  • Publish Date 11 October 1994 (first published 30 September 1994)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 1 August 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint State University of New York Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 243
  • Language English